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Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch


Greetings, Andrew Schulman!

>> On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> > Buchbinder, Barry writes:
>> > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM
>> > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote:
>> > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent
>> > > >implementation, which returned the port number in host byte order
>> > > >instead of in network byte order for all this time. Makes me wonder how
>> > > >often getservent is used in the wild...
>> > > 
>> > > Not that I know what getent is, let alone having ever used it, shouldn't
>> > > finding a bug that old merit a gold star?
>> > 
>> > Oh, please no.  A tin star if you must.  Let's keep gold stars for folks
>> > doing the heavy lifting around here.
>> 
>> Oh, come one, don't be shy.  A silver star at least,
>> 
>> Andrew, do we have silver stars in the vaults?

> But of course!  https://cygwin.com/goldstars/#MG

s/fixing/finding/ ?


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 19:47:37

Sorry for my terrible english...


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